Sunday, June 5, 2016

How To Install Hydrogen (Music Maker) On Linux

How To Install Hydrogen On Linux

Hydrogen is an open source drum machine created by Alessandro Cominu, an Italian programmer who goes by the pseudonym Comix. Its main goal is to provide professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming.

Hydrogen was originally developed for Linux, but later ported to Mac OS X. The graphical user interface for the application uses Qt library, and all code is released under the GNU General Public License.

Features :

These are the features of Hydrogen:

Pattern-based sequencer, with unlimited number of patterns and ability to chain patterns into a song.

Up to 192 ticks per pattern with individual level per event and variable pattern length.

Installation :

Since there is many Linux Distros, Hydrogen developers not providing distro specific binaries for installation.. so we have to compile from source..

These are the instructions for compiling the Hydrogen versions 0.9.6 (all based on QT4) on a debian-based distribution. Hydrogen runs on all kinds of linux distribution, but then the package names and installation tools will differ.